Development and application of safety culture analysis program: First online safety culture quantitative analysis and assessment system in China

• Published in: Journal of loss prevention in the process industries Vol. 89; p. 105312
• Main Authors: Xuecai, Xie, Gui, Fu, Zhao, Shi, Ruipeng, Tong, Wenqing, Tong, Qian, Lyu, Yuxin, Wang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2024
• Subjects: 24Model; Safety culture; Safety culture analysis and assessment; Safety culture analysis program (SCAP); Safety culture elements; 24Model; Safety culture analysis program (SCAP); Safety culture analysis and assessment; Safety culture; Safety culture elements
• ISSN: 0950-4230
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jlp.2024.105312

To promote safety culture assessment, this paper developed China's first online safety culture analysis and evaluation system—Safety Culture Analysis Program (SCAP). SCAP is based on the 32 safety culture elements in the 24Model and provides two login methods: web version and WeChat mini program. It can meet the needs of individuals, groups, and enterprises to conduct safety culture assessments anytime and anywhere and provide convenience for universities to conduct safety culture experiments. The application of SCAP showed that (1) SCAP has rich functions and is highly scientific and universal. (2) The SCAP can output assessment results according to categories, such as total, personnel, safety culture elements, and individual employee requirements, which can be compared with the highest and lowest values stored in the system. This makes it easy for intuitively understanding the current evaluation status. (3) The suggestion report generated by SCAP can help assessment units improve safety culture in a targeted manner and form a dynamic mechanism cycle of “construction-evaluation-construction.” (4) In the future, SCAP will be employed in designing more targeted questions based on the characteristics of different industries and fields to balance the adaptability and specificity of the industry. •Chinese enterprise safety training was conducted in accordance with the “Regulations on Safety Training for Production and Business Units”. Its regulations on safety training content are considerably broad and lack guidance for industrial safety training.•The ACDACM combines historical accident cases and accident causation models, making the developed safety training program comprehensive and in line with industrial needs. The safety training program was established based on this method, which consists of eight parts, each supported by historical data.•It is necessary to build an industry database based on the ACDACM method and a national security training database (system), which can achieve “development of safety training content - safety training learning - safety training assessment - safety training reporting.